THE Sardar Sarovar dam on Narmada river has been exposed to more damages, according to a press release by Narmada Bachao Andolan. More than 15,000 cubic megatonnes (cu mt) of cement has been

THE people of Thailand are still reeling under the impact of the most devastating wet-season flooding in a decade, and they hold the government responsible for their suffering. It was the poor

Rice producing areas across Asia have been hit by huge floods in early October. Thailand, one of the world's top growers and rice exporters has been hard hit with as much as 10 per cent of the

Much water has been muddied over the World Bank sponsored flood control plan in Dhaka

THE devastating fire which raged through Greece in July ravaging its precious pine and fir forests, might now lead to the flooding of capital Athens. The 3-day fire burnt down forests on 10,000

CHINA has been literally flooded with trouble. Coping with torrential showers reportedly the heaviest in 100 years was bad enough; the bursting of a river dike compounded the problem.

After 50 complacent years, Europe's state of the art dyke system is softened for the kill by raging riverine floods

An international panel of engineers and environmentalists, set up to oversee Bangladesh's Flood Action Plan, has criticised the draft "final report" on the plan. The report says that the total bill